A Comparison of an Australian First Nations Primary Healthcare Data Specification with Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations.

ABSTRACT: Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPH) is a widely used indicator of the effectiveness of non-hospital care. Specified using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding, PPH comprises a suite of health conditions that could have potentially been prevented with appropriate care. The most recent edition of the National Guide to a Preventative Health Assessment for First Nations People documents the health conditions of interest to providers of primary care, many of which are not represented in PPH. Given the National Guide has been developed specifically with First Nations in mind, the aim of this research is twofold. The first aim is to formally posit the question of whether a summative measure of hospitalisations aligned diagnostically to the National

SUBMITTER: Potts B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11431243 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature